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<div class="heading">Cleansing the temple as clean as glass, always. Everyone remarks this that our temples are very clean. Yes. Temple means must be very clean. The more you cleanse the temple, the more your heart becomes cleansed. This is the process. The more you dress Kṛṣṇa, you become satisfied. At the present moment, we are accustomed to see my dress. "How costly dress I have got, I become satisfied..." No. When by dressing Kṛṣṇa you'll feel satisfied, that is spiritual satisfaction. That is spiritual satisfaction.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.36 -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.8.36 -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Just like we are worshiping the Deity:

:''śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā-śṛṅgāra-tan-mandira-mārjanādau.''

''Śrī vigraha'', the Deity worship. ''Ārādhanam, ārādhanam'', worshiping. ''Śrī-vigraha ārādhanam. Śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya''. ''Nitya'', daily. Not that ''ārādhana'' after one week or one month. No. ''Nitya'', twenty-four hours. So you should have such program for worshiping the Deity that you may be engaged twenty-four hours. Twenty-four hours. ''Śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya, nitya, nitya-nānā-śṛṅgāra'', dressing, decorating. Daily, new dress, or twice new dress, or four times new dress. As much as you can. ''Śṛṅgāra''. This is called ''śṛṅgāra''. Kṛṣṇa is opulent, the most opulent enjoyer. And we should supply. We should supply by which He can enjoy.

Just like if somebody gives me a new dress, so I say, "Oh, it is a new dress. Very nice." So that is my enjoyment. Similarly, if you satisfy Kṛṣṇa daily a very gorgeous dress . . . just like today I see it is very nice. This kind of dress should be supplied to Kṛṣṇa. First-class clothing, first class. Everything first class. No third class thing for Kṛṣṇa. All first class. The ''gopīs'' must be first class, the dress must be first class, the eating foodstuff must be first class, the sitting place must be first class—more than first class. That is called ''śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā-śṛṅgāra-tan-mandira-mārjanādau'': cleansing the temple as clean as glass, always. Everyone remarks this, that our temples are very clean. Yes.

Temple means must be very clean. The more you cleanse the temple, the more your heart becomes cleansed. This is the process. The more you dress Kṛṣṇa, you become satisfied. At the present moment, we are accustomed to see my dress. "How costly dress I have got," I become satisfied. No. When by dressing Kṛṣṇa you'll feel satisfied, that is spiritual satisfaction. That is spiritual satisfaction.

:''śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā-''
:''śṛṅgāra-tan-mandira-mārjanādau''
:''yuktasya bhaktāṁś ca niyuñjato 'pi.''

So this is the business of the spiritual master, ''yuktasya'', to engage them always. ''Vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam.'' "Such ''guru'', spiritual master, I am offering." This is ''Guru-aṣṭaka.''

So here it is said, ''śṛṇvanti''. Kuntīdevī . . . the first business is ''śṛṇvanti''. One must be eager to hear. Lesson, everything is hearing. You go to school, college. What purpose you pay the school fee, college fee? For hearing. You hear from the learned professor, teacher; you sit down and you get knowledge. The first thing is ''śṛṇvanti''. Therefore a devotee is always engaged in hearing about Kṛṣṇa, ''śṛṇvanti''. That is devotee's business. ''Tavehitam''. Those who are cultivating Kṛṣṇa consciousness, their first business is hearing. So ''śṛṇvanti gāyanti.'' And if you actually, you have heard about Kṛṣṇa, then next business will be to chant, ''gāyanti''.

Just like our preachers are going from here to interior parts of the village. Why? What is the purpose? For ''gāyanti'', for preaching, for chanting—so that they may get the opportunity of hearing. Giving the opportunity to the people for hearing. That is ''gāyanti''. And ''gṛṇanti'', and takes seriously. ''Abhīkṣṇaśaḥ. Abhīkṣṇaśaḥ'' means twenty-four hours, without any stop, always. ''Kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ'' ([[vanisource:CC Adi 17.31|CC Adi 17.31]]).

Caitanya Mahāprabhu therefore recommends, ''kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ''. One should be engaged twenty-four hours in chanting. That is the business of Kṛṣṇa conscious men. Hearing, chanting, ''śravaṇam kīrtanam.'' Either all the items or take to one item—simply hearing, just like Parikṣit Mahārāja did.

Parikṣit Mahārāja did not do any other things. He sat down tight before Śukadeva Gosvāmī and went on hearing, hearing, hearing for seven days. And then his life is finished. So anyone or all of them. If you simply hear, without doing anything . . . simply sit down in the temple, and whenever there is talk of ''Bhagavad-gītā'', ''Bhaga'' . . . you go on hearing. ''Bās''. Even if you do not understand, please hear. That's all. That vibration, that ''mantra'' vibration will help you. Understanding is not very important thing. There may be so many fools and rascals, they do not know grammar, do not know Sanskrit. No, there is no need of. ''Apratihatā''.

''Bhakti'' is ''apratiha'' . . . nothing can check the progress of ''bhakti''. So simply you have to adopt the process. The process is hearing. Just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Caitanya Mahāprabhu was criticized by Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya in the beginning. He was . . . Caitanya Mahāprabhu was son of Jagannātha Miśra, and Jagannātha Miśra . . . Jagannātha Miśra and Jagannātha Miśra's father-in-law, that means Caitanya Mahāprabhu's grandfather, grandfather, Nīlāmbara Cakravartī, he happened to be class friend of Sārvabhauma's father. That means Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya comes on the level of His father. So he asked that, "You are a boy, twenty-four years old only. You have taken ''sannyāsa''. It is very difficult to keep ''sannyāsa'' because there are so many attractions for the young man. So you hear ''Vedānta-sūtra''." This, the hearing. So hearing.

So hearing's so important. Even amongst the Māyāvādī school, they hear ''Vedānta-sūtra''. We also hear, but we hear . . . hear real ''Vedānta-sūtra''. Because they falsely interpret, their hearing is spoiled. But we don't interpret. We hear actually. Kṛṣṇa says that, "I am the Supreme." We accept it. That is hearing. And if you interpret, "Oh, ''Kṛṣṇa'' means this; ''Kurukṣetra'' means this," that mean you're spoiling your time. Why this, that? As it is. Hear as it is.